ADVICE FOR MICHELLE OBAMA: “If male politicians spoke this way about women — ‘they’re all selfish and a mess!’ — heads would roll, but Michelle Obama is seen as ‘outspoken’ and independent. You go girl! But just remember that your husband needs votes from the very block of people you are dissing.”

LINDA HIRSHMAN: TPM Cuts Female Writer Not Making Case for Obama.

SILDA SPITZER JOINS PISSED-OFF POLITICAL WIVES CLUB, plans Senate bid.

Meanwhile, it looks as if Spitzer’s real crimes were financial, not sexual. “Spitzer, who made his name by bringing high-profile cases against many of New York’s financial giants, is likely to be prosecuted under a relatively obscure statute called ‘structuring,’ according to a Justice Department official. Structuring involves creating a series of financial movements designed to obscure the true purpose of the payments.”

Meanwhile thoughts on the hypocrisy.

UPDATE: Stephen Green: “Cleaning up New York one prostitute at a time. Sometimes maybe even two at a time.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Heh:

Discovering that the exclusive international ring of prostitutes known as the “Emperor’s Club” charged up to $5,500 an hour for their services, New York governor Eliot Spitzer vowed to put an end to this price gouging practice. . . . “That kind of excessive compensation is simply outrageous. Prostitution is allegedly a victimless crime,” Spitzer said in a press conference that took place only in our imaginations. “But now we see that its customers can become its victims.”

Spitzer added it was especially shameful that one of the most trusted names in prostitution had engaged in this shocking betrayal and rank greed.

Read the whole thing.

MORE: Big roundup from Professor Bainbridge.

STILL MORE: Heh: “Prostitute Admits Link to Elliott Spitzer; Resigns From Escort Service in Disgrace.”

Also: Clinton Declines Comment on Spitzer.

MORE STILL: “Maybe Vitter should have made things right – and changed his political affiliation before getting caught.”

FINALLY: A Wall Street reader doesn’t want Spitzer to resign: “He’s already dead as a politician. The longer he lingers, the longer the tax-raising Democrats in Albany are held up to ridicule. and the longer the national Democratic party is distracted by a scandal in the statehouse of one of its national candidates.”

And another game of Name That Party! at ABC.

Plus, a funny: “I guess I have disagreements with my own cobloggers. But on something like this, I really think that Glenn Greenwald, Rick Ellensberg, and Thomas Ellers should synthesize their positions so their joint blog isn’t so hopelessly schizophrenic.”

And, Governor Giuliani?

UKRAINIAN ARMY THOUGHTS from the Manolo.

MAJOR HACKING AND TERROR THREATS, from counterfeit Chinese chips.

JOHN EDWARDS IS GONE, but people are still talking about the “two Americas.”

HOW SPITZER got Spitzered. “Details are still emerging, and it’s uncertain how this will all shake out, but one thing is immediately clear: Spitzer has been hoisted by his own petard, brought down by the same kind of investigation he pioneered as a prosecutor.”

UPDATE: The New York Times explains the succession process. Is this a hint? Plus, this: New York could get first African-American governor.

And here’s more on Spitzer from David Weigel.

HUGO CHAVEZ’S surprising friends.

GOOD FOR OBAMA! Sen. DeMint’s office emails: “Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) has agreed to cosponsor the DeMint-McCain earmark moratorium amendment. ” Excellent move. I wonder if Hillary will follow suit? Given her earmark history, it seems unlikely.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “It would be terrific now if he disclosed his ’05 and ’06 earmarks.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another email. I’m sure this is all because of the power of InstaPundit! “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) has agreed to cosponsor the DeMint-McCain earmark moratorium amendment.” Good for her.

DANIEL DREZNER on the difference between scholars and reporters.

COKE EMBRACES MOTHER RUSSIA: Pepsi to be re-educated.

NEW YORK TIMES: “Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.” So much for Mr. Clean.

UPDATE: Reader Chuck Pelto emails: “Why should YOU ‘care’? You support prostitution.”

Well, I support legalizing prostitution. Spitzer’s support was, ahem, more direct. I understand that some people are suggesting he may try to brazen things out, but being the Democratic governor of Hillary’s home state, I think the Clintons will be encouraging him to get out as soon as possible lest this bring up memories. And yes, that’s ironic.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Best headline: From Troopergate to Shtupergate. And various readers are saying it’s a name that party story at the NYT. But when I linked to it they mentioned that Spitzer was a Democrat prominently in the third paragraph. That’s disappeared sometime in the past hour or two and there’s now a much less prominent mention, much further down, but it is there.

MORE: Lots of further links at Hot Air, including a report that Hillary has scrubbed her website of Spitzer references.

Complaint is here. And, from the NYT story:

Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

The hypocrisy. And Michael Gebert emails:

Even if you’re all for legalizing prostitution, and consequently think that Spitzer didn’t really do anything wrong sex-wise, the issue remains that he delivered himself as the highest elected official in New York state into the power of an international crime ring with, it seems safe to assume, connections to other crime organizations which New York prosecutors have been battling for decades. I realize the truth of the Clinton-era line “whenever they say it’s not about the sex, it’s about the sex,” but really, the biggest betrayal of public trust in this is who the governor of New York got into bed with, not what he did there.

Yes, he certainly made himself blackmailable, at the very least.

OBAMA: IF I’M NOT READY TO BE PRESIDENT, “why do you think I would be such a great vice president?”

VISTA’S PROBLEMS: “One year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to ‘upgrade’? . . . XP users have heard too many chilling stories from relatives and friends about Vista upgrades that have gone badly. The graphics chip that couldn’t handle Vista’s whizzy special effects. The long delays as it loaded. The applications that ran at slower speeds. The printers, scanners and other hardware peripherals, which work dandily with XP, that lacked the necessary software, the drivers, to work well with Vista.”

Yep. My sister-in-law, a computer whiz who’s getting her Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, gave up on Vista and switched back to XP. That’s been enough to keep me away.

SLIDING GOOLSBEE UNDER THE BUS?

Does this answer the which bunch of rubes question?

A LOOK AT science journalism and the ‘underdog narrative.’ “In the underdog narrative, it is wrong for the establishment to remain skeptical, which in reality is exactly the opposite of how science is supposed to work. It is not like a courtroom where innocence is the presumption; in science, a novel idea is unfounded until proven otherwise.”

BLAME BURKLE? Just got back from Kroger’s and the National Enquirer is really letting Obama have it. There’s not a lot of real news there, at least to people who’ve followed this stuff (his friendship with Bill Ayers, for example), but it’s significant that it’s hitting supermarket checkout counters everywhere. Is this a case of Clinton buddy Ron Burkle giving Hillary a bit of help? (Mickey Kaus, call your office!) Bill Hobbs manages to get quoted.

UPDATE: Eric Scheie surveys the tabloids.

SAVING SPACE with a ceiling bed.

HAPPY MEMORIES of the Shelby Cobra Daytona. I still want one. Sadly, there’s not even a virtual one in the new release of Gran Turismo. I guess I’ll have to settle for the Viper.

A COMING solar singularity?

WHEN WIVES OUTEARN HUSBANDS: The latest Ask Dr. Helen column is up!

IRRESISTIBLE? Well, maybe the Ukrainian Army’s theory is that no one will want to resist.

I think they’ve just figured out that sex sells.

IN THE VILLAGES OF AL-ANBAR: Another dispatch from Michael Totten, with photos. In a just world, this stuff would be running in The New Yorker or The Atlantic. Since this isn’t a just world, it’s running online. But if you like it, you can make the world a little bit less unjust by hitting his tipjar. It’s how he gets paid.

IF YOU MISSED IT because you were off, you know, having a life or something over the weekend, be sure to check out our podcast with Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan on Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, and why the Obama campaign may be good for America.

LESSONS IN JOURNALISM, from The Wire.